[PATCH] sysctl: Document that sys_sysctl will be removed

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 93b10bd..436697c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,18 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
 
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+What:  sys_sysctl
+When:  January 2007
+Why:   The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the
+       interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be
+       any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl.  The additional
+       maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets
+       in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface.
+
+Who:   Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
 What:  PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl])
 When:  November 2005
 Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c